/dsg/ - Souls General

First for DS2>DS1

>>145972809
Actually I don't think I could run DS3 considering I can barely run DS2 just fine because my processor and video card are a Intel Pentium and NVidia GeForce 350m.

I know, poverty race here but at least I can play DS2.

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REMINDER TO MAKE YOUR POPE, KNIGHT, OR INVADER FOR THE EVENT NEXT WEEKEND

http://pastebin.com/jqKQj426

I'm thinking of doing a FUGS run. I don't think this'll be viable for the Save the Pope invade event because of the stat requirements needed to wield it properly.

But anyone have any cool fashion souls ideas for this. I was thinking of going full Black Knight armor.

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>>145973275

>soul memory
>no full eye orbs
>invaders can't heal
>hitboxes
>unresponsive controls
>sluggish movement
>DaS2 fastroll (30 frames) is closer to DaS1 midroll (32 frames) than fastroll (24 frames)
>massive stamina drain from sprinting, rolling, and attacking
>literally spend 2/3 of the fights waiting for stamina to regenerate
>lock-on doesn't perform it's stated function of keeping you facing the target
>can't pivot
>no tracking on attacks
>can't combo R2->R1
>deadzones

DaS2 apologists cannot refute this.

Dark damage from a player's spells and weapons won't insta-kill another player in PvP like it does in PvE, or will it?

>>145973530
>FUGS + full bk set
hope you like 30vit + fap + havels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISn32EBXX0

reminder ephant is our guy and is the chemo saving us from ultra passive pvp in ds3

>>145973724
>that weeb music

ohgodpleaseno

>>/reddit/

Seems like you can still do the ravioli after getting backstabbed in DaS3, like you would in DaS. I wonder if you could parry wake up hits easier this way.

>>145973583
not in 3 it won't, you'll do a solid 10 damage with a maxed out dark spell build

>>145973724
ephants a retard
belongs to the cesspool that is /jp/

>>145973841
>>145973926

Thats's bullying...

>>145973724
Stop shilling your videos here

Haven't sunbro'd with others yet, can I still be summoned to help with bosses if already beat the boss?

>>145974042
Fuck off, go back to the >>>/trash/

>>145973724
>"saving us from ultra passive pvp"
>none of the people he's fighting are even remotely passive
>they're just retards who run straight into his hyper armored attacks and lose
>unironically thinking this is "skill"

>>145974042
ephant please make a bow pvp video next

DS2/DS3 faggot from the last thread.

I just read SotfS just runs on a DX11 compatible HARDWARE, so I guess I'm out of luck.

In that case, I'm better off just buying the DLC separately?

>>145973724
>he has hyper armor, opponent doesn't
>opponent charges straight at him like a retarD
>he trades and wins

S O

M
U
C
H

S K I L L

Having tears of denial on in a duel is just begging to be humiliated with a throwing knife death.

Does anyone here have DS1 for the Xbone? Is anyone else unable to purchase it?

>>145973619
I know, I know

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>>145974373
>Xbone

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post 10/10 hosts

>>145974042
It's okay, ephant, I like your videos.
Just tone down the weab

>>145974405
When you recieve a console for free, it's hard to complain about what it is. I just wanna play DS1 on it though.

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Rate my shitty pvp build https://www.mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/45002

The 10 int/10 fth is for possibly wielding Firelink Greatsword

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>>145973530

Fume cosplay.

>>145973841
>>145973926
>>145974087
>>145974156
cancer killing ds3

>>145974632
Fuck off shill

>>145973010
just a quick question im hoping you guys can answer about the AR spreadsheet: are all the ARs assuming a 40/40 build? i couldnt find anything saying what stats those are with

>>145974313
and this is any different from poise how?

>>145974632
Go be a nigger somewhere else

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>>145974429

>>145974687
>>145974749
have fun being super passive straight sword caestus shitters for the rest of your lives :)

>>145974756
>bad pvp game ds2

Damn right.

>>145974839
>implying

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>>145974209
Help please

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>>145973724
>>145973841
>>145973926
>>145974042
>>145974087
>>145974146
>>145974156
>>145974187
>>145974313
>>145974632
>>145974687
>>145974746
>>145974749

I haven't been here since DK2 came out on the ps3 and all that broken fun shit was still available care to let me know what's this meme about?

Let me guess he's like that OnlyAfro faggot that lurked around

>>145974746
Poise is based on armor, so any weapon can take advantage of it. It's also a more flexible and less gimmicky system, since it's active all the time, not just while attacking.

And what does poise have to do with some youtube shitter making a video of him winning against other braindead shitters by hyper armor trading?

>>145974839
have fun being super passive straight sword caestus shitters for the rest of your lives :)

>that projection

noice

so who are some ds3 youtubers worth watching?

>>145974914
Donkey Kong 2?

>>145974992
i don't use either of those because im not a shitter

Worst boss?
Worst camera?
Worst arena?

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>>145974985

>MFW poise shitters mad that anyone else can equal them now without wasting points and thinking hyper armor was never a thing since Demon's Souls

>>145975081
i'm fighting Twin Princes right now and the camera is the toughest part of the fight

>>145975030
Sure you don't.

>>145973870
>DS3 teleports you to Anor Londo pvp circa 2012
>triple giantdad invasion ganksquads jump down your throat as soon as the DLC is loaded

>>145974914
It's just some faggot that nobody's ever heard about shilling his videos.

He's was doing it in the last thread too.

>>145974712
pls respond

>>145973567
I'll take the bait.
>hitboxes
No memeing, please. Outside of a couple of downward smashes (which FROM always did badly) they were fine.
>unresponsive controls
>sluggish movement
Calm your autism.
>DaS2 fastroll (30 frames) is closer to DaS1 midroll (32 frames) than fastroll (24 frames)
So you can't spam rolls like a little bitch you are.
>massive stamina drain from sprinting, rolling, and attacking
So you can't spam. Also sprinting is the fastest in series.
>literally spend 2/3 of the fights waiting for stamina to regenerate
If you wear chloranthy and under 50% you don't.
>lock-on doesn't perform it's stated function of keeping you facing the target
>function
>keeping you facing the target
Lock on's function is to free your thumb for roll button. Literally the only thing you need it for, since backstabs aren't instant.
>can't pivot
Thank god.
>no tracking on attacks
Lolwut?
>can't combo R2->R1
So? Every r2 has follow up, and inability to chain r2s into r1s is deliberate - to make r2s more risky.
>soul memory
>no full eye orbs
>invaders can't heal
That does suck, though not as much as people make it out to be.

>>145975175
now that would be a good start

>>145973567

>webm

that's fucked up

>>145975138
>point out that someone is shit
>
The fuck? I wasn't even talking about poise here.

I'm just pointing out that what that guy is doing takes no skill. It's the same thing as buffed Falchion and spamming R1 to win.

>>145974914
No it's just some wannabe e-celeb trying to shill their videos.

"our guy" is social mediaspeak for "hey please like and subscribe I need views please god pay attention to me I beg of you"

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>>145973367
PREFERABLY BOTH A DEFENDER AND A POPE

I'm always using 40 END on any character is this bad? there's ring of favor and prisoner's chain thing?

What are some crutch rings and must have?

>>145975617

40 END + FAP is standard, nothing wrong here.

>>145973567
copypasta used to be better...

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Name my next character /dsg/

>>145975138
Dark souls 1 had hyperarmor too

>>145975939
NlGGERSLAYER

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Is something wrong with mugenmonkey?

>>145975081
Oceiros
all three
why even ask?

>>145975939
Joseph Stalin

Is there a bonus for having a DaS2 save for DaS3?

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>>145975939
John Woo

>>145976015
press the up & down arrows for both dex & str
sometimes they dont' register

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>>145976036
>>145975939
Broseph Stylin

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>pvp at pontiff
>wave at the guy while he buffs
>I guess I should do that too
>sprints over and r1l2r2 with a BKG while I'm in animation
>pulls out dual avelyns and spams until I die
>points down and claps
>oooooook then
>next summon up
>buff while he runs in and keep my distance while he buffs
>parry after every attack and he only uses the WA of the old wolf cs for offense
>bleed him with wa that can't be parried
>he chugs
>sits there and tries to parry my wa over and over and chugs after every bleed proc
>runs out of estus and bc back to Cuckfuckistan

Quality community...

Which sorceries are halfway good? Which are garbage? I'd like to be casting something other than greater heavy soul arrow every now and then.

Does upgrading your catalyst do anything related to actually casting spells through it or does it just increase the damage it deals when you bonk someone over the head with it?

On that note which catalysts are noteworthy? I imagine the two sorcerers staves are the ones I want but I honestly don't know the gimmick of the other ones so who knows.

>>145976151
If he chugs why aren't you slapping his shit?

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>>145976093
apparently it has something to do with greatbows in the left hand

>>145976151
>not punishing his heal

you deserve it

>>145976171
Additional question. Are any of the weapon/catalysts worth dick? I think the idea is neat as hell but they seem like they could also just be garbage.

>>145976151
>>sprints over and r1l2r2 with a BKG while I'm in animation
Can't you just dodge out of animations in DaS3?

>he chugs
Knock him down and hit him with a charm to lock him out of his estus.

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>>145975793
More questions

My stats are usually

27 VIG
?? ATT
40 END
?? VIT
Min STR
Min DEX
15 INT
15 FTH
7 LCK

I noticed spells are really fucking useless in this game hell even to cast them you need the god damn cast ring

I always picked Pyromancer since I always fuck around with the spells but I guess ATT points and INT/FTH points are wasted in none are viable in PvP right?

>>145976285
>punishing heals
>DaS3
Pick one

>>145976364
>My stats are usually
>
>27 VIG
>?? ATT
>40 END
>?? VIT
>Min STR
>Min DEX
>15 INT
>15 FTH
>7 LCK

WTF are you doing?

>>145976457
Stop being a shitter, Anon.

>5.6k in ds1
>4k in ds2
so when are we going back to the better games with exponentially better pve and pvp?

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>>145976364
>>145975617
hello brother
a bit too much vigor and too little str, but still fine!

>>145976285
>trying to punish laggy estus when they can cancel the 2nd half of the animation into a parry and instantkill hornetstab
If they're connecting from the 3rd world and parryfishing, estus punishing is pointless. By the time you see them start the estus animation, they're already at the point in the animation on their client where they can cancel into a parry.

high-ping chug baits are the easiest parries in the world

>>145975939
Dr Havel I'm CIA

>>145975389
>No memeing, please. Outside of a couple of downward smashes (which FROM always did badly) they were fine.
prrrrrrrrt sorry i have gasses

>>145976171
The two sword spells work well, you'd also do well to take Farron Hail, it doesn't do much damage but it covers a nice wide area.
Soul Stream is another powerful attack, but leaves you vulnerable.

>>145975570
i've never played Bloodborne but i like watching challenge runs and people tend to stay away from him in all bl4 fights i've seen
why is that?
does he have some particularly hard to avoid attacks if you're close to him?

>>145976231
Could never truly punish. I'd hit but I wouldn't do enough damage to really fuck him over due to armor he was wearing and weapon I was using

>>145976285
Deserve what? He didn't touch me once, and bc out. My encounter with him was more entertaining than anything

>>145976360
Not when the gap between us was all of 25 feet and I'm applying rouge. He hit me basically at the beginning of my animation
>knock him down
Carthus shotel

>>145976817
The typical approach to a BL4 boss is to stay back and wait for the boss to use one easily punishable move and repeat until dead. It's not so much a matter of what moveset the boss has as it is exploiting the ai to incur as little risk whatsoever as possible.

That boss in particular has trouble hitting to its side and has a very telegraphed and punishable back-attack so it's generally better to stay close and aggressive and dodge to its sides, but backpedalling and passively waiting to punish the same 1 or 2 attacks is the easiest strategy for dealing with every boss.

>>145975617
>What are some crutch rings and must have?
Avoid Prisoner's Chain like the plague. It's shit outside of twinking.

Good for pretty much anything:
>Chloranthy

Build specific:
>Sun Princess
>Leo
>Hornet
>All the magic related rings
>All the stat rings

If you need/want more Health/Stamina/Weight:
>Life
>Favor
>Havel's

>mugenmonkey bugged to hate greatbows
>trying to find weapons that weigh 7.5 units for a weight stand in
WHY

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FC WHERE?

>>145976817
Yeah, He attacks very quickly, hits hard, and is relentless. Fighting up close is like asking to have your shit pushed in in most cases.

>>145976883
>Not when the gap between us was all of 25 feet and I'm applying rouge. He hit me basically at the beginning of my animation

So basically, you're a shitter. If you know he is going to back off to heal then press your advantage.

You're allowed to carry more than one weapon.

>>145977008
He has a very quick attack where he swipes to his side.

>>145976151
the pontiff arena is full of tryhards
Duels are cancer

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>Make new character
>have Crossbow in left hand
>mfw pressing L2
WHAT THE FUCK IS IT SUPPOSED TO DO

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Is there anyone who did a doll skip? Did you receive invalid data for doing that?

Best way to rush a +4 weapon? I can find six shards easy and two large shard easy, but the other six for +3 are trouble.

>>145977293
>doll skip

The real question is how anyone would find such a skip.

>>145977270
No one knows.
>sniper crossbow weapon art isn't the sweep kick chester does or at least a quick step
Severely missed opportunity.

>>145977381
You underestimate the speedrunning community

>>145977147
>game show event
>host and two phantoms turn into boxes
>invader hits one with a basic R1
>that's who he fights
>person he hits is not allowed to heal
>if the invader wins he gets to hit the next box
>invader is not allowed to heal between matches
>invader wins if he manages to kill the host

Does anyone have scans of Dark Souls Design artbook?

>>145977139
Why not just add the greatbow, then? you're using it as a stand-in so you don't care what the damage display says.

who is furtive pygmy

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>>145973530
why not RP as the most suave knight in the series?

>>145977570
Solaire

>>145977570
Manus or Patches

>>145977530
The problem is, it's applying te greatbow but none of it's traits(no damage/scaling/weight), and taking the traits of what I switch it from
I found a weight stand-in(lucerne), thankfully

>>145977173
True to your reputation you are mixing up the fights dipshit

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DS2/DS3 faggot from the last thread.

I just read SotfS just runs on a DX11 compatible HARDWARE, so I guess I'm out of luck.

In that case, I'm better off just buying the DLC separately?
From the DX11 version I'd be just missing the graphics and enemy placement?

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post fashion

rate fashion

>>145977679
wait who is patches

how did he get from DeS to Das3 to BB to AC

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>>145977720
bow man is 10/10 imo senpai

Anybody has any suggestions for games with similar multiplayer to souls?
By this I mean a gane with no dedicated multiplayer area/mode/function, where you can go from being solo to with others with little to no special transition.
I don't care if the nature is PvP, Coop or sonething else entirelly, but my repertoire is rather small and I'm drawing a blank thinking of non-MMO examples, which is a genre I'm avoiding.

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Rate my assassin-esque build?
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/45012

>>145977713
its the ideal version of the game, idiot

>>145977713
>From the DX11 version I'd be just missing the graphics and enemy placement?
The 2 versions also run on separate matchmaking servers, so you can't play with sofs-owners.

Vanilla DaS2 is deader than dead

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>>145977720
>66 fucking str machete
>778 ar
>hitting people for 650

>>145977905
>>145977932
Well yeah but I'm a poverty race who has an Intel Pentium and NVidia GeForce 350m card so I can't be picky with games.

>>145978043
Then maybe instead of wasting money on dead games you ought to save dosh for an upgrade down the line.

>>145978043
time to upgrade anon

>>145978043
Besides, I already tried to run a game that required DX11 HARDWARE and couldn't and SotfS runs on that too so the game just can't work.

>>145977570
i forgot
>>145974756
>players poise faggot areas
not any more they don't

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>No Young Beatrice in Das1 because of muh censorship
>No Young Herald in Das2 because of muh censorship
>Ocelotte left as a loose thread in Das3 because of muh censorship

Fuck this thin-skinned world.

>>145978103
>>145978171
Not in my country, upgrading rigs is a pain in the ass and way more expensive. I live in a third-world shit hole.

>>145978276
I wish I was that knight

>mfw still on my first playthrough because i suck at this game
i'm stuck on twin princes, how much longer do i have to suffer?

>>145977802
patches is literally miya. hates clerics, is an ass to the player but sees it as playful
he was absent in ds2 too

>>145978276
>Ocelotte left as a loose thread in Das3 because of muh censorship
I'm gonna need a source, senpai
>>145978432
you're almost there! 2 more bosses!

>>145978019
good luck hitting competent players

>>145978342
what about getting a console? if you cant at least do that, then you're fuck anon
you could play vanilla ds2 iuf you really wanted too but its obsolete and is entirely dead online

>>145978276
>You will never get to ruin the innocence of a young Emmy
Why live

>>145977712
how am I mixing it up? There is a reason people tend to keep their distance in that fight.

>>145977886
anyone?

>>145978508
oceiros is holding an invisible baby. literally. the skeleton is there, but no texture over it. cant find the vid right now
there's also the cut sounds from the fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vCZdcp6hE

>>145978560
I guess I could get DS2 and its DLC for PS3, I hope PSN has summer sales.

HAHAHAHAHA

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>>145977720
I like your archer.

>>145978913
what chest piece is that on the top right?

>>145978791
>Separated as in from the normal dialogue on youtube, not as in unused in game
so the sounds are still there
All that tells me is that they decided to remove it
Hell, after BB, where they literally had unborn fetuses as a consumable, I doubt they would "censor" a baby dragon skeleton
Also, where is the skeleton?I kinda want to see it now

>>145979062
pale shade

>>145978812
vanilla 2 on PS3 is 5 bucks rn

Best class for No MAGIC at all? Not even worth investing for the low fun spells

What armour looks like the hollow soldier's waistcloth in DaS3?

>>145979130
>Vanilla
The SotfS is also on discount, I'm getting that, thanks!

>>145978530
no problemo with the shitty netcode.

>>145979205
Warrior

>>145979103
Ah dammit its the perfect fashion for one of my characters but I've locked myself out of it on all of my playthroughs

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Can someone please tell me why Sirris has disappeared?
I haven't interacted with Rosaria at all and I just got to Cleansing Chapel and she's not in Firelink

>>145978276
>Herald
who

>>145978791
There's also an unused texture for it of a zombie-looking baby. Perhaps it was meant to confirm Ocelotte as baby born undead and the final failure that broke the King's mind.
>>145979098
Using fetuses as a consumable is one thing but letting the player kill children in a game is literally illegal in many place. Hence why From, who lets you kill any npc you want, can't really put any children in their games.

>>145979205
warrior or knight. warrior saves one point in a pure melee build against a knight but knight gets 4 more att for weapon arts.

Why do GIRLS in RAGGED CLOTHES have HYPERARMOR on their TWIN CURVED SWORDS attacks? That's complete bullshit.

I want to get 17 dex on my pyro so that I can use witches locks. Would dropping to 39/39 int/faith affect my damage by much, when leveling to 40/40 I noticed that I only gained 2Ar on glove? Then go to 27 vgr from 30. Or just 125sl?

>finished first DaS 3 character
>make new one fingering and hosting gank squads
>in the rare event they beat them they expect me to be small fry and lose
>throw poop on their dead bodies

I even BC phantoms every so often just to drive the point of asshole host home. It's far easier of a way to get fans now.

>>145979378
He's holding the skeleton, protecting it. Who's to say he doesn't crush it himself?
Besides, I'm pretty sure removing something literally illegal is not censorship

>twin axe weapon art
What's even the point of this attack? If you spin long enough to consume all of your stamina, it still does less damage than a single L1, is slower, consumes fuckloads of stamina in general, has no range, has no tracking, no hyperarmor and is parryable. Plus people can roll out of it after like 3 spins, which does about as much damage as a single R1 and takes more stamina than 2 L1s.

It literally serves no function, it has no purpose in the moveset. What were they even thinking with this shit?

>>145979439
if you're already at sl120 you can just go to 130 and you will still be invaded by sl100 and fully interact with 120

>>145979367
She comes back after certain bosses.

Aldrich and Princes to be precise

>>145979246
apparently the PS3 of softs is not actually complete compared to the PS4 one

>>145979378
Where can I see the textures of this stuff?

>>145979567
I guess just like the DX9 version, it just misses graphics and enemy placement.

As long as I have the complete DLC's I'm fine.

Man I wish Demon's and DS1 were on PSN too.

>>145979494
It has hyperarmor and (pretty shitty) tracking, to be fair. If you want it to do any damage you'll need to apply carthus jam

>>145978715
There were two separate instances. One healed, one did not

>yellow texts first fight

Discusses second fight


This is what you did

>>145979679
I'm pretty sure DeS is on PSN

>>145979759
I'm pretty sure it isn't.

>get summoned as a blue, at long last
>purple fighting host
>run to help
>chase purple off
>run them down and beat them in a fight
>after they die, there's a long, awkward pause
>character starts fading out
>after I've already disappeared, message pops up saying DUTY FULFILLED
>enter loadingscreen with no ear
Great covenant

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>Decide to kill Firekeeper during Flameless ending for the bonus cinematic
>mfw foot on head

I didn't want this.

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>they unironically made a gank squad boss
>one of them even has an estoc that spams r1
jesus christ!

Why is Burnt Ivory King the biggest badass in the series?

>>145979849
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/demon's-souls/cid=UP0005-NPUB30910_00-DEMONSSOULSDIGUS

have fun

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>>145973010
Why were Dark Souls 3 bosses such pushovers compared to Bloodborne bosses?

>>145979916
>shitter who hides at the back and spams ranged attacks and mashes R1 with an estoc
>faggot using generic knight armor with dual katanas
>overleveled havel "cosplay"
It's literally every DaS2 ganksquad ever
Just replace the greatbow with an infinite number of dark orb casts and you have the typical DaS2 invasion experience.

>>145979714
>yellow texts

>>145980008
Dramatic as fuck entrance

Also;
>They go to all that work to try and contain the Chaos
>It ends up fading on it's own

Granted I'm pretty sure that Chaos will flare up along with the First Flame.

>>145977513

>shameless bump

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>>145979884
but thats the canon ending

>>145980078
>Backstab:no backstab
>Two phase boss has more than one health bar

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Aight. How'd this bitch get in here.

>>145980078
Here's your (You)

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>>145979916
For that singleplayer online experience

>>145980196
Bully

>>145980364
Well, how did you get in there?

>>145980027
Well, fuck me, I didn't search hard enough.
I know what I'm buying next month.

Is the first DarkS also on PSN or just the DLC?
I ask because I've advanced a lot in the PC game (low specs and all).

>>145974756
>enough fun weapon using
You heard the man, Estoc or bust

>>145980078
Because every weapon in BB R1 mashes as fast as a dagger for comparable damage per hit to a UGS with negligible stamina costs and the amount of damage output accomplished by mindlessly mashing the attack button is more than double every other game in the series. Despite having bloated health pools to try and deal with the excessive R1 mashing power of Bloodborne, most of its bosses are sandbags that sit around and let you whack them or get stunlocked by mashing, and most boss fights take less than 30 seconds to steamroll.

>>145979916
pretty sure that boss was meant to be taken on with 2 sunbros, but if you knew how to parry and backstab punish havel that boss was pretty easy.

>>145980364
She has a key.

>>145980547
that's not 2kat

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>>145980331
>Implying backstab matters when they're both doing around the same amount of damage.
>Implying that the boss having two health bars matters when less damage in ds3 still does 8 times more damage on a boss on an even smaller lengthed health bar.

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>>145980448
Wait a minute, that setup...

Is it just me or is Dark Souls 3 generally harder than the rest of them? I've been playing since DeS, and I understand there's an adjustment period for each game that makes it seem harder than the last, but none of them have ever molested me this bad. I already know and understand that I need to git gud, and gud is gittening, but did anyone else feel like this? Also there generally seems more enemies I don't know what to do with, from dogs teleporting right into my asshole in co-op, to giant things with a brazilian HP in the very first level after the hub. Overly, I'm just confused.

>>145980027
Now I'm unsure.
I could buy DS2 SoftS or Demon'sS, how has Demon's aged compared to DarkS?

>>145980629
Every dlc had an optional challenge area designed with co-oping in mind and with a boss made to be taken on with phantoms.
Tanimura came right out and said this prior to Sunken's release. That's why they have the statues that let you summon in people who don't own the dlc.

>>145979916
You are wrong. They ironically made a gank squad boss.

>>145980642
Are you pretending to be retarded or do you not understand that your backstab would doing a proportionally smaller fraction of the boss health than a non backstab, regardless of the absolute numerical value.

>>145980642
>Early game boss with 2 healthbars VS an endgame DLC boss with one

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>>145980649
What would the DS1 version be, the forest area?

>>145980838
>>145980798
DS3 babbies BTFO!!!!!

>>145980682
It's okay, item burden is annoying but not too bad

It's basically DaS0, pretty much everything feels familiar except a thing or two

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>>145980536
>most of its bosses are sandbags that sit around and let you whack them or get stunlocked by mashing

And Dark Souls "poise is working as intended" 3 bosses don't?

>most boss fights take less than 30 seconds to steamroll.

As opposed to Dark Souls you can do 1/8 if a boss's health" 3 where it only takes 10 seconds to steamroll a boss?

>>145980797
YOU KILLED HIM FOR STUPID PROTOTYPE BOLTS

>>145973724
>weaboo music

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Is there a good deposit of ds3 memes yet? Besides the
>working as intended
bits.
Best I've got are some of the crow and this.

>>145980797
Poor Greirat
First his mom dies, then he dies trying to please you, his only friend

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>>145977809
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN?!?!?!?!

>>145981148
>mom
>implying

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>walking around in smoldering lake
>suddenly a fucking hole in the ground
Didn't know I was playing battlefield.

>>145980941
Item burden sounds like a hassle, is overall DarkS2 the better game?

>>145981258
If you kill him he cries for his mother.

>>145979916
They were already self aware of this with the Lautrec encounter in DS1.

>>145981363
And? Where does that imply thst Loretta is his mother?

>>145981258
>his death quote is him apologizing to his mother
>he slips into depression when you bring him a bone of someone close to him

>>145981359
I don't know I haven't played it

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>>145980398
Thank (you)

>>145980838
Here, bloodborne's first boss vs Dark Souls 3's midgame boss.

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This is going to be great.

>>145981387
>tfw noticing Lautrec and his buddies even have perma fall control to prevent cheesing

True gank squad experience.

>>145981564
That is quite obviously not NG

>>145981641
You still can cheese them in the stupidest way possible.

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>>145975939
WHY DICK AM FIRE

>>145981641
B-but in real gank squad experience gravity is your best ally.

>>145981564
>269damage still does 4x more damage than ~700

Fuck Dark Souls 3 bosses

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Did it. I had to summon two npc phantoms unfortunately but i'd hardly consider this a fair fight doing it solo.
In the end, NPC "player character" still fall for the same old tricks.

>>145981564
oh shit
i know where you took those screenshots
this guy kills ng+7 or something bosses in seconds with maxed stats
you took the first screenshot from ng+7 video and the second one is from ng
i found the videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbiD7_L0c2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQTgtwcYBw8&list=PLI94BZUv0R6n9LoF7DePblHB0xsx_PE-7&index=43

you just like to shitpost, don't you

>>145980078
>A normal hit on a DLC boss compared to a critical on a early game boss
Here's the (You), my man.

>>145981986
Haven't done that fight in a long time, but there's two ways you can beat that fight solo. One was to just keep baiting them through the valleys, hit and running the front guy until he went down. For the second, there was a glitch spot on one of the ledges with which you could get behind an obstacle but they wouldn't(but try anyway). You'd be free to attack at them from there

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>>145982228
Here, both screenshots from ng+7, Dark Souls 3 boss still loosing twice as much health for less damage.

https://youtu.be/JQTgtwcYBw8

https://youtu.be/z5mlDMSMSn4

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>All you get for going through that hell is a flower skirt
th-thanks...

>summon two bros for Grand Archives because why not
>jolly co-op ensues
>we even kill a couple of invaders
>I fall off the roof at the gargoyles

>>145982252
See>>145982425
Bloodborne's first boss vs Dark Souls 3's midway boss on equal ng cycle

>>145982425
>2 games that play very differently have differences in boss health to accommodate said differences
amazing
I's like, I don't know, the 2 games have different styles of combat, like one is meant to be faster

Laurence has fucking insane health. It's like 21k or thereabouts.

>>145977606
>Not longbow
But why

>SL 12
>NG++
>Summoning people for Dancer and watching them suffer
I have surrendered to evil.

>>145982496
Welcome to DS2 challenge areas

If this is your first DLC, consider this a warning of what's to come. The other two get miles worse, although their boss rewards are actually somewhat good(one is a boss weapon that allows for wicked powerstancing with an appropriate weapon, and the other rewards you with a really great sword and shield).

Which SL are most of you invading/dueling at most of the time?

>>145982651
>switching goalposts
>different styles of combat where there is no poise on either game on bosses so you're supposed to smash r1. And where they also made Dark Souls 3 bosses as fast as bloodbornes
>different

wee lad, and I though Dark Souls 2 babies were bad.

>>145974550
What armor pieces are you wearing? It looks cool but I can't tell what they are.

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>>145982847

>>145973275
never went to NG+ in DS2 cuz it don't enthrall me. so many things that don't fit well

>slow gameplay
>Most Bosses has same pattern: Great, large, Slow -> Monotone
>Soul Memory

and what's really killed it for me was the "punishing for death"-part. nope, just nope.

it wasn't a bad game (played around 60h), but nothing great, too

>>145982751
they'd die either way you retard

>>145982847
For invading, I have an SL15 +2 build for early areas and an SL60 build for Pontiff.

For duels/fight clubs, SL120.

>>145980078
BB is a very combo heavy game, ALL the bosses were obnoxiously bloated with HP.

>>145981986
Seemed easier just to solo it for me. The NPCs were basically worthless.

Differences between Demon's and DS2 go, I'm having a hard time deciding which should I get and why

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r8 my build, please.

can I get the +1 rings for the ring trophy?

>>145983157
That's not a very easy task, those games are drastically different

If you still have a PS3 somehow, then just get Demon's Souls(although be aware that's its fucking dead). Otherwise, DS2

Is it normal not to level up VIT and END past, say, 14? I've beaten Wolnir so far. I like doing the damage and actually dodging, rather than taking lots of hits.

>>145983153
It's must easier to cheese them with the environment if it's just you. The crowd is easier to manipulate.

>>145982847
you're forced to go 142 for duels

as for invasions around 80-90 is the upper limit

>>145983323
Demon's still has fairly decent activity at lower SL, that said only the JP server has decent high SL activity.

>>145983264

fuck off/10

>>145983390
Most people get at least 27 vig and 20 end and leave vit at base.

>>145982850
>one game
>all weapons deal high damage, swing very fast
>enemies attack fast, extremely fast dodge
>life regen mechanic to reward hyper aggression, no good shield to further emphasize aggression
>bosses have very high HP pools that can be depleted just as fast as the (so called) babby-tier bosses of DS3, due to combat style
-
>the other
>slower paced(though still fast)
>slower swinging weapons, weapons deal less damage
>harder to get levels/upgrade gear
>bosses have lower health in return, often 2 phases/2 health bars as well
>no HP regen(without a terrible ring), so hyper-aggression is more risky
>shitloads of good shields to emphasize slower play
>bosses can be melted just as fast as the (so called) badass bosses of BB
Don't know why I'm responding to this bait. Beyond (admittedly very) similar style, BB and DS3 play very differently. This is an empirical fact, and no matter how many insults or wews you throw at me will change that fact.
Stay mad and keep shilling

>>145983656
>leave vit at base.
and yet you say that str increase equip burden would be unbalanced

>>145983390

VIT is often kept below 20 maximum, often people leave it at base value since the only thing that's really important for armor is that you have an armor piece in all 4 slots, even if it's just the master's set, because of how it effects base defense (absorption is shit basically, doesn't do much).

Stamina is pretty damn important however. I mean if you're cool with 14 then fine but especially if you're focused on rolls like I am, I actually rate stamina higher than life. With 37 endurance I can roll roughly 11 or 12 times, it's very useful. I'd say at least get it around 18-20 if you're lower level, 27 soft cap at least if you're getting to 100-120. I like a lot of stamina though, depends on your playstyle (lower stamina is usually for people who are fishing for parries so they don't attack much beyond hornet ring ripostes).

>>145982847
120 for duels

50 for invasions

>>145983795
What is the difference between defense and absorption, exactly?

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>From re adds a shittier silver knight set
>Also neglects to re add the matching silver weapons

Why did they even bother?

>>145983545
i take that as a compliment, thanks.

>>145982751
>not NG+7 SL 30 and having them die to deacons

>>145983926
>From re adds a shittier silver knight set

?

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First time playing DS and I'm on my first play through and I've stopped seeing any orange soapstone guidance even with the miracle to see more for a long time now. - Anor Londo was when I last seen them.

I've done New Londo and the Tomb of the Giants and I'm now in the Duke's archives.
Am I far too over-leveled? Played this character about 45 hours.
I do have a tendency to grind quite a lot in RPGs and it seemed to me that the Four Kings was stupidly easy.
Nito was a cunt though.
Should I slow down on the leveling so I can start seeing the messages again? I get the feeling I'm missing so many illusory walls and secrets without player messages.

Can someone explain why the Greatsword doesn't have a two hit combo on its 2HR1s?

>>145983891
I wonder what the difference could be when absorption is a percentage and defense is just a number.

Who knows?

>>145983264
hairy old stronk man/10

>>145983157
Get DeS, pirate SotFS

>>145984141
You should stop reading guides.

>>145982425
first screenshot is Bone Marrowed pistol shot - a regular attack in BB
second screenshot is Hornet Lloyd Flynn's backstab - a critical attack with a proper setup in DaS3
the damage numbers are different, but Gascoigne loses similar amount of health on riposte percentage-wise (a bit less, i admit)
https://youtu.be/0XQcmNLMhVM?t=44s
this guy is bl4 and has proper runes to maximize the riposte damage - that's a more fair comparison to Tolo

numbers don't mean shit - relative health loss is what matters

>>145984141
>was when I last seen them

Stopped reading there. Take your nigger speak and fuck off.

>>145984141
Messages arent level-dependant
You're not overleveled

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>>145984114
The DS3 version in objectively worse

>>145983157
One is a good game and mostly finished, the other isn't. Also, DaS2 runs like shit on the PS3.

>>145984409
wait, no
AW have 2 health bars, so relative health loss is probably actually greater for Gascoigne

>>145983264
negative absorption/10

>>145973567
>>145975469
That monster appeared in one giant memory. Those mace wielders are extremely overpowered against melee, even more so in higher NG difficulties as then they just oneshot. Also their pattern is not consistent so if you go in for a hit you might or might not get counterattacked.

>>145984628
Wait what, how?
Can't run worse than in my rig... right?

>>145984498
Almost all armor looked better in DaS1. Do the same side by side with EK, BK, Havel's, Brass, etc.

>>145984141
>Four Kings was stupidly easy.
>Full havels
>Black knight sword.
>rofap
You literally can go forward, mash r1 and nothing will stop you, outside of gimmicks, like Nito's, and gravity.

>>145984498
THE NECK IS VISIBLE
REEEEEEEEEEEE

>>145984498
Looks better to me. Doesn't look so skinny. You ever tried mixing silver knight armor with anything in ds1?

>neck

Yeah that sucks

>>145984687
>absorption
>relevant

>>145973567
> pivot backstabbing
That shit is outright cheating and one of the many reasons why I haven't spend more than an hour or so on pvp in this series.

>>145984985
negative is very relevant

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Good afternoon fellow children of the ash

>>145985063
only flat defensive matters

Was Ithiryll in conflict with Lothric? Most the exled outrider knights can be found inside castle walls, and there's obvious signs of struggle all over the place.

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>>145983680
>different games
>they belong to the same series

Just because it's called Bloodborne doesn't mean it's not a Dark Souls 3 sequel.

>>145985109
>looks like Fyre
>Name is Vincent upside down
>Post isn't all caps
What am I looking at?

>>145985109
You look like a homosexual.

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>Ornstein absorbing the power of fallen Smough
>Ludwig regaining a part of his humanity and activating MLGS
>Abyss Watchers giving all their power to their best fighter, Nameless King absorbing the power of his companion, Lothric returning Lorian back to life
Does Miyazaki has a hardon for this type of powerups and transformations?

>>145985397
The Abyss Watchers one made me sad because this one guy has been killing his friends nonstop since he woke up, and still gives you the legion etiquette

Then you kill him and his two friends by targeting HIM

Then HE absorbs everyone's power to fight you yet again

What a sad man

>>145985584
He was able to fight on his full power till the very end and died in combat against a superior opponent, after seeing that all his friends are now at rest. Probably the best death undead like him could wish for.

>>145985584
>Abyss Watchers is a Fight Club

>>145973010
What even is that picture?

>>145984730
Vanilla ran like shit, constant dipping. May have changed with updates, but it's very unlikely.

How come more people don't use Anri's Straight Sword? Is it too easy or too boring? The thing does wonderful damage at a very rapid pace and bleeds like a motherfucker when a Carthus Rouge is slapped on it.

>DLC reintroduced Sin and the BEO.
>There's now a score board for sinners
How hyped would you be?

>>145985738
Not sure which enemy that is, but the guy int he foreground looks like he's holding the Dragon Bone Smasher from DeS.

>>145985584
>the last sane abyss watcher gave everything, slaying his friends again and again, and living the hell of knowing they all put their last, dying wish and trust into him and failing, just to keep you out of Carthus, and away from the Abyss

>>145985878
it's boring, i made an sl70 regenerator build that was destroying people but only clocked 16 hours with him

>>145985878
You need to keep the cunt alive for a gesture. By the time you get it without killing her, you're almost through half the game. As for low SL invasions, it's not that different from other straight swords.

>>145985963
>not only you go through the carthus catacombs but wreck Wolnir himself and remnants of demons
Should've just let me through, we are not enemies.

>>145985728
why is no one hosting a FC right there anyways?

Didn't make a low level invader before sword master glitch was fixed. :(

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>>145985786
I don't remember having issues with SotFS on my PC, so maybe they fixed, didn't play vanilla, tho.

>>145985878
Just got it on my sl1 run, don't know how good it is with him. at +5 it deals as much damage as my raw broadsword did at +8, but it has that blessed gem effect tho.

>>145986136
I wish that instead of Watchdogs of Farron we actually got an Abyss Watchers covenant that let us bypass them
We'd still need to kill them, eventually, but we could skip them and go straight into Carthus

>>145986406
I meant unpatched PS3. Don't think PS3 has SotFS anyway.

>>145986301
Can't summon in boss rooms.

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>guy using a short sword is out ranging my lucerne
>short sword
>ranging
>a
>lucerne
So why hasn't this been fixed yet? Curved swords have the same thing going on too.

>live in a comfy medieval city
>wake up one day
>abyss watchers are break-dancing towards the city walls
what do?

>>145986545
they're not
it's just lag

>>145986406
why do you need two types of fireballs?

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>>145985329
There is no Vincent
I know who I am now

>>145986587
Can't be a good place if they are coming.

>>145986587
Stunlock them with a stick.

>>145986474
PS3 did had a SOTFS version of the game, but I am not sure if it shared the same servers as Vanilla.

>>145986741
>victim blaming
Ugh, what a shitlord.

>>145986587
Question why the fuck they're breakdancing instead of some slow ominous march

>>145986602
Weird because the "lag" only happens with straight and curved swords :^)

>phantoms who make hosts kill the chameleon undead to lock oblivious hosts out of an ending
>keep using quite resolve gesture
fuk u

>>145986918
it doesn't
it's just more prevalent due to the faster swing speeds

you also don't notice it as much on large weapons because SHOCKWAVES

>>145986545
They can't patch your skills.

>>145986734
if you're trying to be an edgy faggot you only got the faggot part right

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>>145984847
>THE NECK IS VISIBLE